Bluetooth wouldn't work so well for stuff like follow-me. With these remote when you hit 'follow-me' I know they start with a low-power signal and increase it until it finds the first 'hit', then locks on with it at full power. Fiire said this was part of the stuff they did custom for their remote to let you carry it around the house. You can't do that kind of low-level signal control with Bluetooth, so you'ld have no way of reliably pairing to the closest device.

Bluetooth wouldn't work so well for stuff like follow-me. With these remote when you hit 'follow-me' I know they start with a low-power signal and increase it until it finds the first 'hit', then locks on with it at full power. Fiire said this was part of the stuff they did custom for their remote to let you carry it around the house. You can't do that kind of low-level signal control with Bluetooth, so you'ld have no way of reliably pairing to the closest device.

I can confirm that bluetooth is a no-go as far as follw-me is concerned. As long standing Pluto users we have never found a bluetooth dongle with a range limited enough to work properly for follw-me.... it one of those weird situations where manufacturers really are delivering far more range than they say the devices will deliver. And in this situation less range is preferable!!!

I haven't used the gyration windows remote. But afaik it's just a mouse. So you probably won't have the gyro navigation of media. But, if you find a store that has it with a return policy, maybe you could try it out and let us know so we have the definitive answer.

The Fiire Cheaf looks great but they made a huge mistake... I already have bluetooth dongles on the core and all my MD's... Why use it's own dongle On small MD's with only 2 USB ports on top of eachother there is no space for 2 dongles. An extension USB cable or a USB Hub works, but I want it small!

I hope a future version is made using bluetooth, even if that would make it a lot more expensive I would prefer that option.

The reason Bluetooth was not used is because the range is too good to work reliably with the "follow me" feature.If you walk into the next room with an MD it is not certain that you will lose connection to the previous room, and then the system really doesn't know that you have moved. Or if you are on the first floor, you might access the MD on ground floor.That was the reason for the Fiire remote not using Bluetooth.

It doesn't work on bluetooth devices because the range of bluetooth is too good to realy differenciate between two bluetooth dongles in neighbouring rooms.That is why the fiire remote does not use bluetooth.

Follow me most definitely works with the right equipment, but that is not bluetooth.